Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
Buy on AmazonTessa Hulls’ extraordinary graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts offers personal insight into the long shadow cast by political persecution: upon her grandmother Sun Yi, a dissident journalist in Shanghai during the Communist regime; her high-achieving mother Rose, who struggles to care for Sun Yi following a mental breakdown; and onto Tessa herself, who fled to the ends of the earth to escape her family’s problems—but is now ready to face her inheritance. The Pulitzer Prize committee praised Feeding Ghosts as “an affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women …. and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories.”
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"Tessa Hulls’ extraordinary graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts offers personal insight into the long shadow cast by political persecution: upon her grandmother Sun Yi, a dissident journalist in Shanghai during the Communist regime; her high-achieving mother Rose, who struggles to care for Sun Yi following a mental breakdown; and onto Tessa herself, who fled to the ends of the earth to escape her family’s problems—but is now ready to face her inheritance. The Pulitzer Prize committee praised Feeding Ghosts as “an affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women …. and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories.”"
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"Author Tessa Hulls’ journalist grandmother escaped China’s Cultural Revolution only to end up in and out of mental hospitals. Her mother was thrust into the role of caretaker at an early age; as an adult, she would constantly monitor Tessa for signs of instability. Tessa rebelled, running away from her family until she finally returned, after her 13th birthday, ready to learn about her family’s ghosts. Hulls recounts an epic story with haunting drawings and simple but eloquent prose."
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